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Soon a band struck up lively dance music in the adjoining Vladimir Hall. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, that scowling Old Bolshevik who helped the Soviets take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade...
Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan tried to calm Nikita down by assuring him that Thompson was "in a very difficult position," and in the best wifely tradition, Mrs. Thompson announced that she was ready to accept all blame for the argument. But before tempers cooled, Nikita had spelled out one of his purposes in coming to the U.N.: to ask the General Assembly "to judge the U.S. as an aggressor" because of the U-2 and RB-47 flights...
With Khrushchev away touring Austria, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and his lieutenants in the Kremlin dithered for ten days over what to do about the downed RB-47-For reasons best known to themselves, they said nothing. In fact, they sent a cruiser out to play a grisly farce of helping the U.S. and Norwegian air forces look for the survivors...
...American tourists, that one old lady was prompted to remark: "Did President Eisenhower decide to come after all?" Apart from the crowds, the little cakes and flowing Schaumwein, the big three sat on a circular veranda and held an impromptu press conference. In obvious reference to recent speculation that Mikoyan had been downgraded, one correspondent said to him: "It's a very pleasant surprise to see you here, and everyone is commenting on the fact." With heavy humor, Mikoyan replied: "Were you opposed to my coming?" He spoke with all the confidence of his old authority...
After Kozlov put in a plug for peaceful coexistence and confirmed that U-2 Pilot Francis Powers would be given a public trial, the three strolled to the drawing room to listen to a visiting celebrity, Pianist Van Cliburn. As Cliburn launched into Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody, Mikoyan put a fatherly hand on the shoulder of U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's daughter Sherry. When Cliburn swung into some lively Russian songs, Mikoyan joined in the chorus...